Summary of net.lang.c for period 6/15/84 - 7/1/84
    as seen at utah-gr by Spencer Thomas
    Articles 2015 - 2069 (55 articles)

                Continuing discussions

unsigned - yes, you can say "unsigned short" and "unsigned long".
        Not according to K&R!  Well, maybe.  Depends on which part of K&R
                you read.
        Interesting sidelight: the "V7" C compiler just translates short
                into int, so you can't say "short int", but you can say
                "long short"!

Side effects inside sizeof - changes to pcc to detect and warn about them.
        Apparently the draft standard says that side effects inside sizeof
                will not occur.

C vs Algol style semicolon usage (terminator vs separator)

(How quickly they forget!)  Further discussion (under a new title) of
        appending tokens using cpp.
        Note: ANSI standard will not allow token formation by the
        pre-processor.

HQTF2: NULL as a pointer value (wasn't it only last month we ran this one
        into the ground?  It's getting as bad as "FOO" was on unix-wizards.
        Maybe it's time for an addition to the "Netiquette" guide! :-)

                New discussions

Is "a;" a legal declaration as "a" as an int?
        Arguments from the C Reference Manual say it isn't (good!), but
                some compilers accept it.

How do people do variable length structures?  (Usually with a string
        on the end.)
        Subdiscussion about 0 vs 1 length arrays for this purpose.

6809 C compiler and 8 bit ints - what do you do on machines where 16 bit
        arithmetic is horrendous?

Short discussion of argument substitution into macro definitions.

ANSI X3J11 committee has issued a draft standard for the C language, also
        including library and environment standards.

Question about default case in switch statement.
        Reasonable answer explaining why it's not a problem.  (See the
                discussion for more info.)
        A cute program showing some really gross things about case statements.

Revised strings package posted to net.sources (by o...@edai.UUCP).

Chem Abstracts is looking for work done in the area of portability standards
        or guidelines.  Contact cbosgd!chemabs!bobr (Bob Richards).

C compiler for 8051 (but must go to object code, NOT 8051 assembler.  According
        to the author, this makes it a "true compiler".)  Contact Scott Abbot,
        ihnp4!mvuxa!sa.

Crossover from net.micro.pc: if "double a[10][20]", is "a" the same as
        "&a[0][0]"?  No - they are the same address, but different types.

Looking for pipes in Aztec C (sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix244@berkeley - John Antypas).

How to change the C compiler so it doesn't do arithmetic in double precision?
        (Ki@MIT-OZ)

Question about forming a standard way to distinguish System V, System III,
        Version 7, BSDx, ... programs from each other.  Can we agree on
        a set of #defined symbols for each?  Mail to ihuxx!ignatz (Dave Ihnat).

Looking for Ctrace debugging tool (ala SP&E April 1984) (Rich Altmaier -
        decwrl!ios!richa)